Australia's empire
By: [edited by] Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.
Contributors: Schreuder, D. M.; Ward, Stuart.
Series: The Oxford history of the British Empire; Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780199273737
Subjects: National characteristics, Australian; Nationalism -- Australia -- History; Imperialism -- History; Australia -- History; Australia -- Colonial influence; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Australia; Australia -- Foreign relations; Australia -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What became of Australia's empire? / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward; title: The saga of Captain Cook / Hobbles Danaiyarri; title: Conquest / Alan Atkinson; title: Settling the land : the making of rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse; title: Indigenous subjects / Ann Curthoys; title: Art and the environment : new visions from old / Anne Gray; title: Empire, state, nation / John Hirst; title: Migrations : the career of White British Australia / Eric Richards; title: Religion and identity / Hilary M. Carey; title: Money : trade, investment, and Australian nationalism / Geoffrey Bolton; title: Security : defending Australia's empire / Stuart Ward; title: Monarchy : from reverence to indifference / Mark McKenna; title: War and commemoration : 'the responsibility of empire' / Joy Damousi; title: Gender and sexuality / Angela Woollacott; title: Popular culture / Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo; title: 'In history's page' : identity and myth / Neville Meaney; title: Epilogue: After empire / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.